<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">We have already lost two drives close in time in the past and the array has rebuilt the logical drive out of the spares without a problem. I mistyped RAID5 for the eight 2TB drive logical drive. I should have typed RAID6. How come I have a worse problem than firmware? Thanks for your time!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font>Sincerely,<br>Dow<br></font><font size="6"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:44.79999923706055px;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)">⚛</span></font><font>Dow Hurst, Research Scientist<br> 340 Sullivan Science Bldg.</font><div><font> Dept. of Chem. and Biochem.<br> University of North Carolina at Greensboro<br> PO Box 26170 Greensboro, NC 27402-6170<br></font><br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Jeff Hubbs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jhubbslist@att.net" target="_blank" onclick="window.open('https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&tf=1&to=jhubbslist@att.net&cc=&bcc=&su=&body=','_blank');return false;">jhubbslist@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div style="font-size:small">I have a
Promise VTrak M610i 16 drive array. It has eight 2TB drives
used in RAID5. </div>
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Ooh, you have a worse problem than firmware if you actually plan to
rebuild that array someday...<br>
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<div style="font-size:small">I've added
eight 3TB WD Red NAS drives but the array doesn't think they
are larger than 2TB. I haven't found the max drive size this
array supports after looking around. Does anyone know?</div>
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<div style="font-size:small">The array
firmware is old: version 2.31.0000.00</div>
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<div style="font-size:small">I've asked
Promise support if the latest firmware will help, but haven't
gotten a response yet. I appreciate any answers y'all may
have. If anyone has dealt with an array of this type and
upgraded the firmware, does this preserve currently configured
logical drives?</div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font>Sincerely,<br>
Dow<br>
</font><font size="6"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:44.7999992370606px;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)">⚛</span></font><font>Dow
Hurst, Research Scientist<br>
340 Sullivan Science Bldg.</font>
<div><font> Dept. of Chem. and Biochem.<br>
University of North Carolina at Greensboro<br>
PO Box 26170 Greensboro, NC 27402-6170<br>
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